I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me--and that I've made of myself--as a... sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If we define a sign as an exact reference, it must include symbol because a symbol is an exact reference too. The difference seems... to be that a sign is an exact reference to something definite and a symbol an exact reference to something indefinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordina...ry it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is a very important and fundamental relation between learning and personality development. . . . The two interact in a "circ...ular process." Thus, mastery of symbol systems (letters, words, numbers), reasoning, judging, problem-solving, acquiring and organizing information and all such intellectual functions are fed by and feed into varied aspects of the personality--feelings about oneself, identity, potential for relatedness, autonomy, creativity, and integration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain t...hings occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double sign...ificance.... In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »